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For most of the companies, the patch management is a challenge. All customers don’t have SCCM. And WSUS is aging and is not agile (you have to create several GPOs to handle different patch windows). This is why Azure Update Management is welcome to replace this tool. If you do only Azure Update Management in your automation account, the solution ...

Currently I’m working on AZ-102 certification and I wanted to share with you a small lab I created to try Azure virtual network and especially remote gateway. To create a Hub-and-Spoke topology, you need that each spoke virtual network communicates through the hub virtual network. To implement this kind of solution, you need several virtual networks and peering. I would ...

Azure File Sync is a Microsoft feature released in July 2018. It enables to synchronize multiple On-Premise file servers with Azure. In other words, we can replace DFS-R for branch office. Azure File Sync brings also a tiering feature that enables to cache in On-Prem servers the most used files (based on the access data) and to keep in Azure ...

Veeam Cloud Connect is a solution to store backups and archives in a second datacenter such as Microsoft Azure. Thanks to this technology, we can easily follow the 3-2-1 backup rule (3 backups; 2 different medias; 1 offsite). Last time I talked about Veeam Cloud Connect, I deployed all Veeam roles within a single VM. This time I’m going to ...

This article is the final topic about how to deploy a Remote Desktop Service in Microsoft Azure with Windows Server 2016. In this topic, we will apply the RDS Final configuration, such as the certificates, the collection and some custom settings. Then we will try to open a remote application from the portal. Deploy a Windows Server 2016 RDS Farm ...

In the previous topics of this series, we have deployed the RDS Farm in Azure. Now we need a file service in high availability to manage user profile disks (UPD). To support the high availability, I leverage Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and Scale-Out File Server (SOFS). For more information about the deployment of S2D, you can read this topic (based ...

This topic is part of a series about how to deploy a Windows Server 2016 RDS farm in Microsoft Azure. In previous topics, we saw how to deploy networks, storage and virtual machines in Azure. We added also the domain controller to the On-Prem forest across the Site-to-Site VPN. In this topic, we will deploy RDS 2016 farm in Azure. This ...

This topic is part of a series about how to deploy a Windows Server 2016 RDS farm in Azure. In the previous topics, we have deployed Microsoft Azure resources such as networks, storage or virtual machines. In this topic, we will configure domain controllers to extend the On-Premise Active Directory to Microsoft Azure  Before following this topic, the previous articles ...

This topic is part of a series about how to deploy a Windows Server 2016 RDS farm in Microsoft Azure. Previously, we have created the network resources, the storage account for diagnostics and the Windows image. In this topic, we will create all the Azure VM required for the solution. The deployment will be processed from a JSON template. This series ...

This topic is part of a series about how to deploy a Windows Server 2016 RDS farm in Microsoft Azure. In this topic, we will see how to deploy the Microsoft Azure networks resources, the storage account and how to prepare a Windows Image. You can find the other topics of the series in the following menu: Deploy a Windows ...